Intelligence, Knowledge, Right Reason. Here then without more ado seek the real nature of the Good. For surely thou dost not seek it in a plant or in an animal that reasoneth not.

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Seek then the real nature of the Good in that without whose presence thou wilt not admit the Good to exist in aught else. — What then? Are not these other things also works of God? — They are; but not preferred to honour, nor are they portions of God. But thou art a thing preferred to honour: thou art thyself a fragment torn from God: — thou hast a portion of Him within thyself. How is it then that thou dost not know thy high descent — dost not know whence thou comest? When thou eatest, wilt thou not remember who thou art that eatest and whom thou feedest? In intercourse, in